Automatic recognition of corneal nerve structures in images from confocal microscopy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4801-4807

  Scarpa, Fabio ^a   Grisan, Enrico ^a   Ruggeri, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; FILTRATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMINANCE; MICROCOMPUTER; MICROSCOPE; NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISIBILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; CORNEA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 56149105631     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2061     Document Type: Article

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